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How to use luffing in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word luffing? Here are some examples.

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Then bear off slightly, steering away from the wind until the sail just stops luffing.
With a complex silhouette that ripples like gently luffing sails, Aqua breathes new life into the residential tower.
Manitowoc offers a full-range of luffing jibs and fixed jibs for all of its crane products.
The davits are of the luffing type: they swing out by gravity and pivot on a hinged pin.
Thanks to their adjustable jib these luffing jib cranes easily manoeuvre your load within the smallest radius.
During the initial part of the launch sequence, the davit's luffing action toward the ship's side causes the lifeboat to swing outward.
Then near birds peeled upwards, luffing into the breeze, catching that lift and rising steeply.
Cahill turned to see Napoleon bounding across the lawn, foolish ears flapping like luffing sails.
They were agile and easier to navigate, with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and one to three masts, with lateen triangular sails allowing luffing.
When you stand close to the course during practice, watching dozens of them leapfrog down segments of their route, the slap-slap-slap of their skis on the bumps sounds like luffing sails.
Kiwi tactician Terry Hutchinson had his team sail the American boat off to the right-hand side of the race course, luffing BMW ORACLE Racing in an effort to hold the lead.
The HSK Portal Harbour Crane is always the preferred solution where an operator is considering replacing a low-performance double-link luffing crane which is several decades old.
Aside from shovel excavators, wheel loaders and mobile cranes of various sizes, we also use a portal-type slewable luffing crane with a 35-ton capacity to ensure highly professional transshipment of goods.
If you turn the boat away from the wind, you are luffing.
They were agile and easier to navigate, with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and 1 to 3 masts, with lateen triangular sails allowing luffing.
Examples from Classical Literature
After the start do not go in for a luffing match or allow yourself to be luffed by a yacht you do not fear.
Scarcely had he spoken, when the French frigate, luffing up, ran her bows against the quarter of the Isabel.
You must learn how to help her with the helm to take these seas easily, first by luffing and then by bearing away.
The man at the helm, who was one of the worst navigators of the party, made the mistake of luffing the boat into the wind.
After luffing to pick him up, the brigantine had been again pulled off on the port tack.
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